The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

First be a good animal.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.